checking the current state of a key (down or up)

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Christophe Pallier

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Apr 20, 2021, 9:26:21 AM4/20/21

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Hello,

The keyboard.check() and keyboard.wait() seems to treat the keydown event only once, and this does not allow to detect if the participants keeps pressing a key (+ autorepeat seems disabled).

Is there a way to monitor the state of a key? Or enable a sort of autorepeat (if a key is still pressed after a certain amount of time, another keydown event is emitted).

[The context: a situation is which you control a continuous parameter with ''-' and '+' keys.]

Florian Krause

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Apr 20, 2021, 10:36:06 AM4/20/21

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Hi Christophe,

it is technically possible by directly calling the corresponding Pygame function repeatedly: pygame.key.get_pressed()

This will bypass Excpyriment's logging though. We could think about implementing this directly in Expyriment though. I will put it on our feature request list.

Best,

Florian

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